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Fungi are prone to phenotypic instability, that is, the vegetative phase of these organisms, be they yeasts or molds, undergoes frequent switching between two or more behaviors, often with different morphologies, but also sometime having different physiologies without any obvious morphological outcome. In the context of industrial utilization of fungi, this can have a negative impact on the maintenance of strains and/or on their productivity. Instabilities have been shown to result from various mechanisms, either genetic or epigenetic. This chapter will review different types of instabilities and discuss some lesser-known ones, mostly in filamentous fungi, while it will direct readers to additional literature in the case of well-known phenomena such as the amyloid prions or fungal senescence. It will present in depth the "white/opaque" switch of Candida albicans and the "crippled growth" degeneration of the model fungus Podospora anserina. These are two of the most thoroughly studied epigenetic phenotypic switches. I will also discuss the "sectors" presented by many filamentous ascomycetes, for which a prion-based model exists but is not demonstrated. Finally, I will also describe intriguing examples of phenotypic instability for which an explanation has yet to be provided.
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Benocci T, de Vries RP, Daly P. A senescence-delaying pre-culture medium for transcriptomics of Podospora anserina. J Microbiol Methods 2018; 146:33-36. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2018.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2017] [Revised: 01/18/2018] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Kuter K, Kratochwil M, Berghauzen-Maciejewska K, Głowacka U, Sugawa MD, Ossowska K, Dencher NA. Adaptation within mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation supercomplexes and membrane viscosity during degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in an animal model of early Parkinson's disease. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2016; 1862:741-753. [PMID: 26844379 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2016.01.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2015] [Revised: 01/27/2016] [Accepted: 01/29/2016] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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In Parkinson's disease (PD) motor symptoms are not observed until loss of 70% of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra (SN), preventing early diagnosis. Mitochondrial dysfunction was indicated in neuropathological process already at early PD stages. Aging and oxidative stress, the main factors in PD pathogenesis, cause membrane stiffening, which could influence functioning of membrane-bound oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos) complexes (Cxs) in mitochondria. In 6-OHDA rat model, medium-sized dopaminergic lesion was used to study mitochondrial membrane viscosity and changes at the level of OxPhos Cxs and their higher assembled states-supercomplexes (SCxs), during the early degeneration processes and after it. We observed loss of dopaminergic phenotype in SN and decreased dopamine level in striatum (STR) before actual death of neurons in SN. Behavioural deficits induced by lesion were reversed despite progressing neurodegeneration. Along with degeneration process in STR, mitochondrial Cx I performance and amount decreased in almost all forms of SCxs. Also, progressing decrease of Cx IV performance in SCxs (I1III2IV3-1, I1IV2-1) in STR was observed during degeneration. In SN, SCxs containing Cx I increased protein amount and a shifted individual Cx I1 into superassembled states. Importantly, mitochondrial membrane viscosity changed in parallel with altered SCxs performance. We show for the first time changes at the level of mitochondrial membrane viscosity influencing SCxs function after dopaminergic system degeneration. It implicates that altered mitochondrial membrane viscosity could play an important role in regulation of mitochondria functioning and pathomechanisms of PD. The data obtained are also discussed in relation to compensatory processes observed.
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- Katarzyna Kuter
- Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smętna St. 12, 31-343 Kraków, Poland.
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- Physical Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 4, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smętna St. 12, 31-343 Kraków, Poland
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- Physical Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 4, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany; Clinical Neurobiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, D-12203 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smętna St. 12, 31-343 Kraków, Poland
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- Physical Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 4, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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Barja G. The mitochondrial free radical theory of aging. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2015; 127:1-27. [PMID: 25149212 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-394625-6.00001-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The mitochondrial free radical theory of aging is reviewed. Only two parameters currently correlate with species longevity in the right sense: the mitochondrial rate of reactive oxygen species (mitROS) production and the degree of fatty acid unsaturation of tissue membranes. Both are low in long-lived animals. In addition, the best-known manipulation that extends longevity, dietary restriction, also decreases the rate of mitROS production and oxidative damage to mtDNA. The same occurs during protein restriction as well as during methionine restriction. These two manipulations also increase maximum longevity in rodents. The decrease in mitROS generation and oxidative stress that takes place in caloric restriction seems to be due to restriction of a single dietary substance: methionine. The information available supports a mitochondrial free radical theory of aging focused on low generation of endogenous damage and low sensitivity of membranes to oxidation in long-lived animals.
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- Gustavo Barja
- Department of Animal Physiology II, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University, Madrid Spain
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van Diepeningen AD, Engelmoer DJP, Sellem CH, Huberts DHEW, Slakhorst SM, Sainsard-Chanet A, Zwaan BJ, Hoekstra RF, Debets AJM. Does autophagy mediate age-dependent effect of dietary restriction responses in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 369:20130447. [PMID: 24864315 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Autophagy is a well-conserved catabolic process, involving the degradation of a cell's own components through the lysosomal/vacuolar machinery. Autophagy is typically induced by nutrient starvation and has a role in nutrient recycling, cellular differentiation, degradation and programmed cell death. Another common response in eukaryotes is the extension of lifespan through dietary restriction (DR). We studied a link between DR and autophagy in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina, a multicellular model organism for ageing studies and mitochondrial deterioration. While both carbon and nitrogen restriction extends lifespan in P. anserina, the size of the effect varied with the amount and type of restricted nutrient. Natural genetic variation for the DR response exists. Whereas a switch to carbon restriction up to halfway through the lifetime resulted in extreme lifespan extension for wild-type P. anserina, all autophagy-deficient strains had a shorter time window in which ageing could be delayed by DR. Under nitrogen limitation, only PaAtg1 and PaAtg8 mediate the effect of lifespan extension; the other autophagy-deficient mutants PaPspA and PaUth1 had a similar response as wild-type. Our results thus show that the ageing process impinges on the DR response and that this at least in part involves the genetic regulation of autophagy.
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- Anne D van Diepeningen
- Laboratory of Genetics, Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands Department of Ecological Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, UPR2167, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, UPR2167, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Castelein N, Muschol M, Dhondt I, Cai H, De Vos WH, Dencher NA, Braeckman BP. Mitochondrial efficiency is increased in axenically cultured Caenorhabditis elegans. Exp Gerontol 2014; 56:26-36. [DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2014.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2013] [Revised: 02/07/2014] [Accepted: 02/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Szafranski K, Mekhail K. The fine line between lifespan extension and shortening in response to caloric restriction. Nucleus 2014; 5:56-65. [PMID: 24637399 PMCID: PMC4028356 DOI: 10.4161/nucl.27929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Caloric restriction (CR) is generally linked to lifespan extension in various organisms and may limit age-associated diseases. Processes through which caloric restriction promotes lifespan include obesity-countering weight loss, increased DNA repair, control of ribosomal and telomeric DNA repeats, mitochondrial regulation, activation of antioxidants, and protective autophagy. Several of these protective cellular processes are linked to the suppression of TOR (target of rapamycin) or the activation of sirtuins. In stark contrast, CR fails to extend or even shortens lifespan in certain settings. CR-dependent lifespan shortening is linked to weight loss in the non-obese, mitochondrial hyperactivity, genomic inflexibility, and several other processes. Deciphering the balance between positive and negative effects of CR is critical to understanding its ultimate impact on aging. This knowledge is especially needed in order to fulfil the promise of using CR or its mimetic drugs to counteract age-associated diseases and unhealthy aging.
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- Kirk Szafranski
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Toronto, ON Canada
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Toronto, ON Canada; Canada Research Chairs Program; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Toronto, ON Canada
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Bereiter-Hahn J. Do we age because we have mitochondria? PROTOPLASMA 2014; 251:3-23. [PMID: 23794102 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-013-0515-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2013] [Accepted: 05/21/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The process of aging remains a great riddle. Production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by mitochondria is an inevitable by-product of respiration, which has led to a hypothesis proposing the oxidative impairment of mitochondrial components (e.g., mtDNA, proteins, lipids) that initiates a vicious cycle of dysfunctional respiratory complexes producing more ROS, which again impairs function. This does not exclude other processes acting in parallel or targets for ROS action in other organelles than mitochondria. Given that aging is defined as the process leading to death, the role of mitochondria-based impairments in those organ systems responsible for human death (e.g., the cardiovascular system, cerebral dysfunction, and cancer) is described within the context of "garbage" accumulation and increasing insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and glycation of proteins. Mitochondrial mass, fusion, and fission are important factors in coping with impaired function. Both biogenesis of mitochondria and their degradation are important regulatory mechanisms stimulated by physical exercise and contribute to healthy aging. The hypothesis of mitochondria-related aging should be revised to account for the limitations of the degradative capacity of the lysosomal system. The processes involved in mitochondria-based impairments are very similar across a large range of organisms. Therefore, studies on model organisms from yeast, fungi, nematodes, flies to vertebrates, and from cells to organisms also add considerably to the understanding of human aging.
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- Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn
- Institut für Zellbiologie und Neurowissenschaften, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Max-von-Lauestrasse 13, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
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Barja G. Updating the mitochondrial free radical theory of aging: an integrated view, key aspects, and confounding concepts. Antioxid Redox Signal 2013; 19:1420-45. [PMID: 23642158 PMCID: PMC3791058 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2012.5148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2012] [Revised: 04/11/2013] [Accepted: 05/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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An updated version of the mitochondrial free radical theory of aging (MFRTA) and longevity is reviewed. Key aspects of the theory are emphasized. Another main focus concerns common misconceptions that can mislead investigators from other specialties, even to wrongly discard the theory. Those different issues include (i) the main reactive oxygen species (ROS)-generating site in the respiratory chain in relation to aging and longevity: complex I; (ii) the close vicinity or even contact between that site and the mitochondrial DNA, in relation to the lack of local efficacy of antioxidants and to sub-cellular compartmentation; (iii) the relationship between mitochondrial ROS production and oxygen consumption; (iv) recent criticisms on the MFRTA; (v) the widespread assumption that ROS are simple "by-products" of the mitochondrial respiratory chain; (vi) the unnecessary postulation of "vicious cycle" hypotheses of mitochondrial ROS generation which are not central to the free radical theory of aging; and (vii) the role of DNA repair concerning endogenous versus exogenous damage. After considering the large body of data already available, two general characteristics responsible for the high maintenance degree of long-lived animals emerge: (i) a low generation rate of endogenous damage: and (ii) the possession of tissue macromolecules that are highly resistant to oxidative modification.
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- Gustavo Barja
- Department of Animal Physiology II, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University , Madrid, Spain
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van Diepeningen AD, Slakhorst SM, Koopmanschap AB, Ikink GJ, Debets AJM, Hoekstra RF. Calorie restriction in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina. Exp Gerontol 2010; 45:516-24. [PMID: 20064602 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2010.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2009] [Revised: 01/04/2010] [Accepted: 01/06/2010] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Calorie restriction (CR) is a regimen of reduced food intake that, although the underlying mechanism is unknown, in many organisms leads to life span extension. Podospora anserina is one of the few known ageing filamentous fungi and the ageing process and concomitant degeneration of mitochondria have been well-studied. CR in P. anserina increases not only life span but also forestalls the ageing-related decline in fertility. Here we review what is known about CR in P. anserina and about possibly involved mechanisms like enhanced mitochondrial stability, reduced production of reactive oxygen species and changes in the OXPHOS machinery. Additionally, we present new microscopic data on mitochondrial dynamics under rich nutritional and CR conditions at different points in life. Lines that have grown under severe CR for more than 50x the normal life span, show no accumulation of age-related damage, though fecundity is reduced in some of these lines. Finally, we discuss the possible role of CR in P. anserina in nature and the effect of CR at different points in life.
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- Anne D van Diepeningen
- Laboratory of Genetics, Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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